Conducting fieldwork for investigating technology use in healthcare is a challenging
undertaking and yet there is little in the way of community support and guidance for
conducting these studies. There is a need for better knowledge sharing and resources to
facilitate learning. This is the second of two volumes designed as a collective graduate
guidebook for conducting fieldwork in healthcare. This volume brings together thematic chapters
that draw out issues and lessons learned from practical experience. Researchers who have
first-hand experience of conducting healthcare fieldwork collaborated to write these chapters.
This volume contains insights tips and tricks from studies in clinical and non-clinical
environments from hospital to home. This volume starts with an introduction to the ethics and
governance procedures a researcher might encounter when conducting fieldwork in this sensitive
study area. Subsequent chapters address specific aspects of conducting situated healthcare
research. Chapters on readying the researcher and relationships in the medical domain break
down some of the complex social aspects of this type of research. They are followed by chapters
on the practicalities of collecting data and implementing interventions which focus on
domain-specific issues that may arise. Finally we close the volume by discussing the
management of impact in healthcare fieldwork. The guidance contained in these chapters enables
new researchers to form their project plans and also their contingency plans in this complex
and challenging domain. For more experienced researchers it offers advice and support through
familiar stories and experiences. For supervisors and teachers it offers a source of reference
and debate. Together with the first volume Fieldwork for Healthcare: Case Studies
Investigating Human Factors in Computing systems these books provide a substantive resource on
how to conduct fieldwork in healthcare. Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Ethics
Governance and Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare Readying the Researcher for
Fieldwork in Healthcare Establishing and Maintaining Relationships in Healthcare Fields
Practicalities of Data Collection in Healthcare Fieldwork Healthcare Intervention Studies In
the Wild Impact of Fieldwork in Healthcare: Understanding Impact on Researchers Research
Practice and Beyond References Biographies
